Vladimir Putin

No sane person would want to return to the Red Scare of the early 20th century and fears of bomb-throwing Bolsheviks, or to the hysteria of McCarthyism of the 1950s and its claims that Communists had infiltrated our government and media. However, there are enough Russian fingerprints on the incoming Trump administration to cause our collective eyebrows to rise.

But first, I have to give props to Mitt Romney, who was wrongly ridiculed by Democrats in 2012 when he claimed Russia was "our number one geopolitical foe." It turns out he was very prescient, given Russia's invasion of the Ukraine and annexation of Crimea two years later, and Moscow's military support for Syria's...

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